Research Areas

My professional and academic background is in architecture, urban planning, and human geography and my research can be characterized as an integration of all three disciplines. I am particularly interested in the dynamics of environmental and social change from the scale of entire cities down to the level of individual buildings and their inhabitants. My ongoing research focuses on various aspects of urban planning and development, urban design, housing, transportation, children's environments, and public health in Canadian cities. This work utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and I have a particular interest in advancing urban and health applications of geographic information systems (GIS).

Loebach, J., Gilliland, J. 2018 in press. Examining the social and built environment factors influencing children’s independent use of their neighbourhoods and the experience of local settings as child-friendly. Journal of Planning Education & Research.

Loebach, J., Gilliland, J. 2018. Examining the social and built environment factors influencing children’s independent use of their neighbourhoods and the experience of local settings as child-friendly. Journal of Planning Education & Research.

Paddle, E., & Gilliland, J. 2016. Orange is the new green: Exploring the restorative capacity of seasonal foliage in schoolyard trees. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13(5), 497.

Paddle, E., & Gilliland, J. 2016. Orange is the new green: Exploring the restorative capacity of seasonal foliage in schoolyard trees. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13(5), 497.

Larsen, K., Gilliland, J. and Hess, P. 2012. Route based analysis to capture the environmental influences on a child's mode of travel between home and school.Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(6), 1348-1365.

Gilliland, J. 2012. 'Fire and urban form: destruction and reconstruction in nineteenth-century Montreal.' In Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World ed G. Bankoff, U. Luebken and J. Sand (University of Wisconsin Press) 190-207.